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Maven archetype for Eclipse RCP

Is there maven archetype (template) for Eclipse RCP / plugin ?

That is, I want something like mvn eclipse-rcp create (run from comand line) to get Eclipse RCP project.

See also http://maven.apache.org/archetype/maven-archetype-plugin/

Related How to create new Eclipse RCP project using Maven?

Solution

  • I would suggest using Maven Tycho to build the RCP application. It is a matured project which is utilized by the Eclipse Foundation as part of its own build infrastructure.

    You can take a look at the following sample for cross platform Eclipse RCP Application building using Maven/Tycho-

    https://github.com/eclipse/tycho-demo/tree/master/itp04-rcp

    UPDATE -

    There is a maven archetype for Eclipse Tycho plugin/feature build but it does not support RCP specifically.

    You can take a look at it here -

    https://github.com/open-archetypes/tycho-eclipse-plugin-archetype

    It will build your project structure as follows -

    __artifactId__    : parent pom project
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 |---__artifactId__.core   : eclipse-plugin 
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 |---__artifactId__.feature: eclipse-feature 
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 |---__artifactId__.test   : eclipse-test-plugin (Fragment project)
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 |---__artifactId__.site : eclipse-repository

    This leaves out building the RCP app. For that you will have to add a pom.xml file where your .product file lies. Tycho will pick up settings from this .product file.

    At the very lease your pom.xml must have the following -

    https://github.com/eclipse/tycho-demo/blob/master/itp04-rcp/eclipse-repository/pom.xml